I prefer to say we're all just particles bumping around. Personally, I don't see how any of those particles, no matter how they are arranged, can sometimes choose to ignore the laws of physics and go their own way.
I personally can't see how a monkey turns into a human. But that's irrelevant because that is not the claim of natural selection. This makes a strawman of most positions that endorse something approximately like free will. Also:
For purely practical reasons, the legal system assigns "fault" to some actions and excuses others.
Just the legal system? Gah. Everybody on earth does this about 200 times a day.
I personally can't see how a monkey turns into a human. But that's irrelevant because that is not the claim of natural selection. This makes a strawman of most positions that endorse something approximately like free will.
I don't think that most positions that endorse free will don't believe at all that evolution happens.
When it comes to contempory philosophers I think a minority of those who advocate for the existence of free will deny evolution.
Another month has passed and here is a new rationality quotes thread. The usual rules are: